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Erle Stanley Gardner
Following a money trail leads a PI into danger in this hard-boiled mystery by the creator of Perry Mason and author of Turn on the Heat. Brainy private detective Donald…
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A private detective searches for a missing person in this breathlessly dramatic (Los Angeles Times) whodunnit from the creator of Perry Mason
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From the world-famous creator of Perry Mason, Erle Stanley Gardner - at his death the best-selling American writer of all time - comes another baffling case for the Cool &…
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From Perry Mason creator Erle Stanley Gardner - during his life, the best-selling American author of all time – comes a lost classic of detective fiction featuring private eyes Donald…
From the world-famous creator of Perry Mason, Erle Stanley Gardner comes another baffling case for the Cool & Lam detective agency
Lost for more than 75 years, The Knife Slipped is a glorious return to the heyday of private eyes and shady dames, of powerful criminals, crooked cops, blazing dialogue, and…
From Perry Mason-creator Erle Stanley Gardner comes a lost classic of detective fiction featuring private eyes Donald Lam (once played by Frank Sinatra!) and Bertha Cool.
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Selma Arlington is engaged to a wealthy widower. His heirs don’t want him to tie the knot. Perry Mason is asked by Selma to prove she is neither a gold…
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Published … by arrangement Penzler Publishers, LLC/Sobel Weber Associates, Inc. –Title page verso.
Originally published: New York: W. Morrow and Co., c1964.
When Perry Mason receives two mysterious cheques from Lola Allred, a woman he’s never heard of, he smells trouble. A visit from Lola’s husband reveals that she has run away…
Edward Garvin is a very successful businessman with a very unhappy ex-wife–who wants his money. So Garvin calls on lawyer Perry Mason to protect his company from her schemes, and…
Originally published: New York: William Morrow & Company, 1953.
Defense lawyer Perry Mason needs a temporary typist, but the one he hires turns out to be more temporary than expected. When she disappears, leaving a couple of diamonds behind…
Originally published: New York: Morrow, 1956.
The character that inspired the … HBO original series Perry Mason. –Front cover.
‘The bestselling author of the century … a master storyteller’ New York Times Perry Mason - a major new TV series
‘The bestselling author of the century … a master storyteller’ New York Times
How did Donald Lam get all the dames? He was just a brainy little guy, but he had the damnedest way with women …
The blondes melted like wax. You’re…
Bertha Cool has just been released from a sanitarium where she has been recovering from flu and pneumonia, but soon she and Donald Lam are on the hunt for a…
Dr. Hilton Devarest was a whiz at curing patients, but his private life was sick, sick, sick. He lived with a wife who was as warped as she was repulsive…
A cool girl hunt is what the blind man wanted. He was searching for a pretty young woman, soft spoken and slender, whom he’d never seen but knew had vanished…
‘The best-selling author of the century … a master storyteller’ New York Times